{"id":8567,"date":"2016-06-12T02:14:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T02:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2016-06-12T02:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T02:14:17","slug":"gor-mahia-renews-rivalry-with-tusker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-renews-rivalry-with-tusker\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia renews rivalry with Tusker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/blackberry-tusker-16.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><br \/>\nGor Mahia will continue with their defence of the KPL Top 8 tournament when they take on rivals Tusker\u00a0\u00a0in the first leg match of the KPL Top 8 semi-final at the Nyayo National Stadium at 4.15pm.<br \/>\nThe two sides also met at this stage in 2015. Gor Mahia came away victors, winning 4-3 on aggregate. The first leg ended 2-2 with Abondo and Kagere scoring for Gor Mahia. The second leg ended 2-1 with Olunga grabbing both goals.<\/p>\n<p>George Awoko, an assistant coach at Tusker insists that Tusker are very confident after having beaten Kogalo 1-0 in April in a Sportpesa Premier league clash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur confidence level is very high and the boys are in good shape and eager to play,\u201d Awoko said. <\/p>\n<p>The official further insisted that midfielder Humphrey Mieno is in the right frame of mind to play despite interest from the defending champions. \u201cMieno is still our player and we will not release him until we achieve our season\u2019s target, which is to win the Premier League title. \u201cHe is one of our key players. He has shown good attitude in training and we know he will fight for the team today,\u201d added Awoko.<\/p>\n<p>One player whom KPL fans will be eager to watch is Brazilian Thiago Lima Da Silva. However his paperwork is incomplete and thus cannot be fielded yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are currently working on documents required by the player and the coach is also not in a hurry to use the player,&#8221; said Ronald Ngala.<\/p>\n<p>However the other new signings, Baron Oketch and Wellington Ochieng are raring to go.<br \/>\n\u201cGor Mahia is a strong team that has been home to some of the country\u2019s most notable footballers. In the last four years they have had some very good strikers and I want to be like them. I want to score as many goals as I can for the team and make a good impression,\u201d I know that there are some talented players here but I think that to become the best you have to best the best.\u201d said Oketch to the KPL website.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-renews-rivalry-with-tusker\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia will continue with their defence of the KPL Top 8 tournament when they take on rivals Tusker\u00a0\u00a0in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[422,201],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2016-kpl-top-8","tag-gor-mahia-vs-tusker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8569,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions\/8569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}